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In Science, one year is nothing. It will become knowable with international pressure. Giving up midway is not the solution.
by cscurmudgeon 5y ago
In Science, one year is nothing. It will become knowable with international pressure. Giving up midway is not the solution.
- scotty79 5y agoMidway to what? If there was any conclusive evidence that they had a sample of covid or its ancestor in that lab before late 2019 it could have been destroyed without a trace right after. You'll be always left with nothing more than accusations that can't be disproven (or proven). The only thing that might put this thing to rest is further research on coronaviruses in animals and humans especially the ones that spread asympthomatically which are way harder to even find. And maybe some day we'll discover some ancestor of covid somewhere. But it still won't put the lab leak hypothesis to rest if it's found in bats. Only if ancestor of covid is actually human coronavirus (other then the ones we discovered so far because they cause symptoms of common cold) and is detected in historical tissue samples from humans from before 2019 then maybe most people will rule out lab leak. Meanwhile get ready for decades of blaming China for the pandemic.